Geekcon 2007

I had the pleasure of attending the second day of Geekcon 2007 this weekend at the Wingate Institute.  As it was last year, Geekcon brought together several dozen extremely talented people who came up with a variety of weird and interesting projects to put together.

Among the ones I really liked were an attempt to do IP over semaphone, a very cool recreation of the Enigma encryption device put together using mechanical and electrical components only, and -- for sheer esoteric silliness -- Oren Tirosh and Kobi Sambrano's daytrading program which took its buy/sell cues from the movement of a lava lamp.

Geekcon -- like the Geek Garage which it spawned -- has an incredible and unique atmosphere about it. There's something about getting some of Israel's smartest and most creative technology people to work on amusing projects just for the hell of it that brings a flutter to my little heart.

I'm glad that Giza (which co-sponsors both the Garage and Geekcon along with Carmel) helps enable this unique forum.

I wasn't able to put together a project this year, but I've already started working on one for next year. In the meantime, I've posted some more photos on Flickr for your enjoyment.